Bonaparte’s Gull
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
The Bonaparte’s Gull is the smallest gull seen regularly in North America. They nest in Boreal forests of Canada and Alaska, but spend winters along the North American coast, lower Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. They are the only gull species known to regularly nest in trees.
Recent DNA studies revealed information to revise the long-standing classification of the Bonaparte’s Gull. Formerly listed in the genus Larus, the accepted genus for these birds is now Chroicocephalus.
Taxonomists regard the Bonaparte’s Gull as monotypic (i.e. there are no subspecies).
My meetings with this species have been in Alaska, Oregon, California, out to sea off Baja California in Mexico, and even in Texas at the mouth of the Rio Grande. More recently, during my 2022 tour through western Canada, I found myself in their company in southern Yukon and in northern Alberta.
My favorite remembrance of these meetings came in April 2016, when I was in Oregon at Klamath Falls. A migrating flock of small black-headed gulls flew into the Link River waterway I was filming. They began foraging on midges by hovering over the surface of the water, and I captured some of their feeding behaviors.
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Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:07 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729016-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Part of the collection at the Western Foundation of Vertibrate Zoology in Camarillo, California. |
Date Taken: 2011:11:02 11:19 |
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Location:
W F V Z |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 105 mm, f/8.0, 1/2 |
File Name: D3X4684-BonapartesGull |
| © 2011 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Part of the collection at the Western Foundation of Vertibrate Zoology in Camarillo, California. |
Date Taken: 2011:11:02 11:17 |
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Location:
W F V Z |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 105 mm, f/8.0, 1/2 |
File Name: D3X4682-BonapartesGull |
| © 2011 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Part of the collection at the Western Foundation of Vertibrate Zoology in Camarillo, California. |
Date Taken: 2011:11:02 11:20 |
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Location:
W F V Z |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 105 mm, f/8.0, 1/2 |
File Name: D3X4685-BonapartesGull |
| © 2011 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Upper Klamath Lake, Klamath Falls, Southern Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2003:12:15 13:40 |
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Location:
Terminal City |
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Camera Information: NIKON D1X, 800 mm, f/6.3, 1/4000 |
File Name: JCD_4712BonepartesGull |
| © 2003 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Upper Klamath Lake, Klamath Falls, Southern Oregon. |
Date Taken: 2003:12:15 13:31 |
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Location:
Klamath Falls |
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Camera Information: NIKON D1X, 800 mm, f/6.3, 1/4000 |
File Name: Cut-JCD_4652BonapartesGull |
| © 2003 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Lutak Inlet, near the mouth of the Chilkoot River, near Haines, Alaska. |
Date Taken: 2005:07:17 15:46 |
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Location:
Chilkoot (historical) |
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Camera Information: NIKON D2X, 550 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 |
File Name: JCD9505BonapartesGull |
| © 2005 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:37 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729306-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:36 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729282-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:33 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729237-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Immature bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:29 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729222-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: First winter bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:21 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729169-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:16 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729113-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:14 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729088-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:13 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729067-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:07 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729009-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:05 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728985-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:04 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728953-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:01 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728942-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:55 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728878-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:53 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728854-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:51 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728810-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:45 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728742-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:44 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728726-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: The Bonaparte's Gulls I met here on the river mouth seemed to be juveniles. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico. |
Date Taken: 2021:01:30 8:21 |
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Location:
Boca Chica Beach |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/11.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_D5X6076-BocaChicaBeach |
| © 2021 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: The Bonaparte's Gulls I met here on the river mouth seemed to be juveniles. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico. |
Date Taken: 2021:01:30 8:21 |
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Location:
Boca Chica Beach |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/11.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_D5X6111-BocaChicaBeach |
| © 2021 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Miramar Lake at Scripps Ranch in San Diego California. |
Date Taken: 2015:11:14 17:04 |
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Location:
Miramar Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 400 mm, f/5.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: D723154-BonapartesGull |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Miramar Lake at Scripps Ranch in San Diego California. |
Date Taken: 2015:11:14 17:13 |
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Location:
Miramar Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 400 mm, f/5.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: D723254-BonapartesGull |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Miramar Lake at Scripps Ranch in San Diego California. |
Date Taken: 2015:11:14 17:05 |
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Location:
Miramar Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 400 mm, f/5.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: D723161-BonapartesGull |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Miramar Lake at Scripps Ranch in San Diego California. |
Date Taken: 2015:11:14 17:11 |
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Location:
Miramar Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 400 mm, f/5.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: D723222-BonapartesGull |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:16 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729113-BonapartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Cheena River, near the airport. Fairbanks, Alaska. |
Date Taken: 2005:07:03 16:10 |
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Location:
Creamer' Dairy |
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Camera Information: NIKON D2X, 550 mm, f/5.6, 1/1500 |
File Name: JCD7352BonapartesGull |
| © 2005 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Miramar Lake at Scripps Ranch in San Diego California. |
Date Taken: 2015:11:14 17:06 |
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Location:
Miramar Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 400 mm, f/5.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: D723172-BonapartesGull |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:51 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728810-BonapartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Seen on the first day of the expedition to Archipiélago de Revillagigedo on board the Shogun. Between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico. |
Date Taken: 2017:02:09 13:11 |
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Location:
Marisol |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 280 mm, f/8.0, 1/2500 |
File Name: BonepartesGull_D5X3865 |
| © 2017 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: First winter bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:41 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729334-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:45 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728744-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:20 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729162-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:16 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729120-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 15:59 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D728924-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Breeding adult bird in migration at Veteran's Park in urban Klamath Falls Oregon. Here, the Klamath River joins Upper Klamath Lake and Lake Ewauna and is called the "Link River". |
Date Taken: 2016:04:24 16:20 |
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Location:
Veteran's Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D729158-BonepartesGull |
| © 2016 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: The Bonaparte's Gulls I met here on the river mouth seemed to be juveniles. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico. |
Date Taken: 2021:01:30 8:15 |
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Location:
Boca Chica Beach |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/11.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_D5X6003-BocaChicaBeach |
| © 2021 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Sometimes you just gotta scratch that itch! The Bonaparte's Gulls I met here on the river mouth seemed to be juveniles. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico. |
Date Taken: 2021:01:30 8:15 |
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Location:
Boca Chica Beach |
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Camera Information: NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/11.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_D5X6035-BocaChicaBeach |
| © 2021 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls visited Wye Lake and its neighbor (called ‘Second Wye Lake’) during my stay at Watson Lake. Of all the places I visited on my 2005 expedition to Alaska, Watson Lake was one of my favorite stops. It was where I first met Red-Necked Grebes and Mew Gulls. |
Date Taken: 2022:06:07 9:23 |
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Location:
Second Wye Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508529-WatsonLake.YK_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls visited Wye Lake and its neighbor (called ‘Second Wye Lake’) during my stay at Watson Lake. Of all the places I visited on my 2005 expedition to Alaska, Watson Lake was one of my favorite stops. It was where I first met Red-Necked Grebes and Mew Gulls. |
Date Taken: 2022:06:07 9:23 |
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Location:
Second Wye Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/5000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508540-WatsonLake.YK_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls visited Wye Lake and its neighbor (called ‘Second Wye Lake’) during my stay at Watson Lake. Of all the places I visited on my 2005 expedition to Alaska, Watson Lake was one of my favorite stops. It was where I first met Red-Necked Grebes and Mew Gulls. |
Date Taken: 2022:06:07 9:42 |
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Location:
Second Wye Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508757-WatsonLake.YK_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls at Lake Kimiwan spent much of their days loafing on the rails along the boardwalk. I didn’t see any of them sporting the black hoods we expect on breeding birds. |
Date Taken: 2022:07:04 15:48 |
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Location:
Kimiwan Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508256-KimiwanLake.AB_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls at Lake Kimiwan spent much of their days loafing on the rails along the boardwalk. I didn’t see any of them sporting the black hoods we expect on breeding birds. |
Date Taken: 2022:07:04 15:48 |
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Location:
Kimiwan Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508273-KimiwanLake.AB_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls at Lake Kimiwan spent much of their days loafing on the rails along the boardwalk. I didn’t see any of them sporting the black hoods we expect on breeding birds. |
Date Taken: 2022:07:05 8:31 |
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Location:
Kimiwan Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508913-KimiwanLake.AB_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Miramar Lake at Scripps Ranch in San Diego California. |
Date Taken: 2015:11:14 17:04 |
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Location:
Miramar Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D7200, 400 mm, f/5.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: D723156-BonapartesGull |
| © 2015 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Southwest of Lawrence Kansas is a large reservoir called Clinton Lake. Here, a 1.6 mile long earthen dam holds back the Wakarusa River, forming a fifty foot deep, 11 square mile lake. I hiked to the shore at the dam’s base and spent time with the gulls, swallows, and grebes, who were kind enough to approach my perch. |
Date Taken: 2023:04:22 8:58 |
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Location:
Clinton Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON Z 9, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1600 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_ZX96598_ClintonLake-KS |
| © 2023 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Southwest of Lawrence Kansas is a large reservoir called Clinton Lake. Here, a 1.6 mile long earthen dam holds back the Wakarusa River, forming a fifty foot deep, 11 square mile lake. I hiked to the shore at the dam’s base and spent time with the gulls, swallows, and grebes, who were kind enough to approach my perch. |
Date Taken: 2023:04:22 8:56 |
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Location:
Clinton Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON Z 9, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_ZX96299_ClintonLake-KS |
| © 2023 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Southwest of Lawrence Kansas is a large reservoir called Clinton Lake. Here, a 1.6 mile long earthen dam holds back the Wakarusa River, forming a fifty foot deep, 11 square mile lake. I hiked to the shore at the dam’s base and spent time with the gulls, swallows, and grebes, who were kind enough to approach my perch. |
Date Taken: 2023:04:22 8:38 |
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Location:
Clinton Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON Z 9, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_ZX95465_ClintonLake-KS |
| © 2023 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Southwest of Lawrence Kansas is a large reservoir called Clinton Lake. Here, a 1.6 mile long earthen dam holds back the Wakarusa River, forming a fifty foot deep, 11 square mile lake. I hiked to the shore at the dam’s base and spent time with the gulls, swallows, and grebes, who were kind enough to approach my perch. |
Date Taken: 2023:04:22 8:27 |
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Location:
Clinton Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON Z 9, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_ZX95152_ClintonLake-KS |
| © 2023 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
|
Description: Southwest of Lawrence Kansas is a large reservoir called Clinton Lake. Here, a 1.6 mile long earthen dam holds back the Wakarusa River, forming a fifty foot deep, 11 square mile lake. I hiked to the shore at the dam’s base and spent time with the gulls, swallows, and grebes, who were kind enough to approach my perch. |
Date Taken: 2023:04:22 8:25 |
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Location:
Clinton Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON Z 9, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/800 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_ZX95081_ClintonLake-KS |
| © 2023 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Bonaparte's Gull(Chroicocephalus philadelphia) |
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Description: Bonaparte's Gulls at Lake Kimiwan spent much of their days loafing on the rails along the boardwalk. I didn’t see any of them sporting the black hoods we expect on breeding birds. |
Date Taken: 2022:07:04 17:01 |
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Location:
Kimiwan Lake |
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Camera Information: NIKON D850, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/8000 |
File Name: BonapartesGull_8508714-KimiwanLake.AB_ |
| © 2022 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
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